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ONLINE EXCLUSIVE More photos from Camp Darfur, a simulated refugee camp in McCarthy Quad.
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 55 | www.dailytrojan.com tuesday, april 15, 2008
Diversity in Art
Artist Hector Silva tells the stories of a twice
marginalized community through
more than 25 years of drawings. 7
Love of the game
Men’s tennis player Abdullah Magdas
is succeeding in his first season
with the No. 6 Trojans. 16
Faces of Darfur
As a part of Fight On for
Darfur week, the Undergraduate
Student Government created a
simulation of a Darfur refugee
camp. Inside each of the tents are
photos of some of the genocide
Quincy Dein | Daily Trojan
victims. Students can sign up to
camp out overnight in the tents
through Wednesday night.
Experts find SoCal
earthquake is likely
By NICOLE DAILO
Daily Trojan
Experts found there is a 99
percent chance that Califor-nia
will experience one or more
earthquakes in the next 30 years
identical in magnitude to the
1994 Northridge earthquake,
according to a report released
at a press conference Monday at
USC.
The probability of having an
earthquake of even greater mag-nitude,
specifically 7.5, during
the same time period is 46 per-cent,
the report found.
“The probabilities we’re get-ting
are not that much differ-ent
from ones we’ve gotten in
the past,” said Thomas Jordan,
director of Southern California
Earthquake Center and W.M.
Keck Foundation professor of
earth sciences. “But these proba-bilities
themselves are uncertain.
It’s a game of chance. It’s like flip-ping
a coin; maybe it’ll happen,
maybe it won’t.”
The study, called the Uniform
California Earthquake Rup-ture
Forecast, is the first from
the SCEC, the U.S. Geological
Survey and the California Geo-logical
Survey that assesses the
prospect of earthquakes across
the state rather than only in cer-tain
cities.
It presented the expected mag-nitude
of these earthquakes and
calculated when and where they
are expected to occur in the next
30 years.
The report divided the state
into two regions, designating
all areas north of Monterey as
Northern California and all cit-ies
south of San Luis Obispo
as Southern California. The
San Andreas, San Jacinto and
Elsinore Faults, the three most
active faults in the state, were the
primary subjects of analysis.
The findings from the study
could change evacuation
plans and building codes.
| see quake, page 6 |
By CALLIE SCHWEITZER
Daily Trojan
The Los Angeles Police Depart-ment
and the Department of Pub-lic
Safety are working on a memo-randum
of understanding that
when finalized could allow DPS to
enforce biking rules around cam-pus
more strictly — especially by
writing citations to bicyclists who
do not follow traffic laws.
“We’ve had an MOU with LAPD
for years,” DPS Capt. Dave Carlisle
said. “But it had gotten stale, so un-der
[DPS] Chief [Carey] Drayton
and [LAPD] Chief [William] Brat-ton,
we have looked to improve it.”
The new MOU will more clearly
define DPS’s powers and allow
them to do things that will save the
LAPD time, such as issuing traffic
citations to bicyclists that would
send them to traffic court, instead
of waiting for LAPD to make a visit
to campus to do so, Carlisle said.
LAPD has given hundreds of
bicycle-related citations to stu-dents
in the last three years, Dray-ton
said.
“But it’s not their first priority to
handle this,” he said. “LAPD is so
understaffed in this division that
there’s no time to write citations at
‘SC.”
Since the beginning of the
school year, DPS has been work-ing
on a campaign for new bicycle
law enforcement as a result of an
increase in bicycle-related accidents
on campus.
According to the California
Department of Motor Vehicles,
bicyclists must obey the California
Vehicle Code and are subject to the
same rules and regulations as any
other vehicle on the road. The bicy-cle
citations would function exactly
like vehicle citations: offenders
would be subject to fines, increased
insurance rates and points on their
license. They would also be sent to
traffic court.
Bicycles must ride in the same
direction as traffic, not against it,
and must come to a complete stop
at stop signs and traffic signals.
Upon receiving a citation, of-fenders
receive a court date and
time, and can choose to plead
guilty or not guilty, Carlisle said. If
they plead guilty, they can usually
avoid a visit to court by paying the
fine. If offenders wish to plead not
guilty, however, they must appear
in court.
Offenders who fail to pay the
fine or appear in traffic court after
being summoned are committing
another violation, a misdemeanor.
Their fines will increase and a traf-fic
warrant can be issued, DPS Of-ficer
Wyman Thomas said.
Under a new agreement,
students would go to traffic
court for bicycle citations.
DPS-LAPD team
to give citations
| see DPS, page 11 |
By KATE MATH ER
Daily Trojan
The national search for a new
director of the USC School of Journal-ism
is over. USC Annenberg School
for Communication Dean Ernest J.
Wilson III announced Monday that
a new director with an extensive back-ground
in journalism will hold the po-sition
beginning July 7.
Geneva Overholser, who currently
holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in
Public Affairs Reporting for the Mis-souri
School of Journalism, will replace
Michael Parks, who is stepping down
after holding the position since 2002.
“She has a tremendous professional
experience and is a respected leader
in both the field of journalism and as
a scholar looking toward the future
of journalism,” said Geoffrey Baum,
assistant dean for public affairs and
special events at Annenberg “As you
look across the nation at a field of can-didates
for director, there is no better
person.”
Overholser has an extensive back-ground
in journalism and has worked
for the Colorado Springs Sun, The
Washington Post and The New York
Times. She has also held positions on
the Pulitzer Prize Board and the Amer-ican
Society of Newspaper Editors.
Overholser is best known for her
work at the Des Moines Register, where
she served as editor from 1988 to 1995.
During that time, the paper won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and
she was named Editor of the Year by
the National Press Foundation.
In recent years, however, Overholser
has used her journalistic background
to study the future of the profession.
In 2006, she published “On Behalf
Geneva Overholser will
replace Michael Parks when
his term ends in June.
| see Director, page 11 |
Michael Parks’ accomplishments at Annenberg:
Geneva Overholser’s goals for Annenberg:
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=
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Made sure Annenberg retained its accreditation
Brought more credibility to the journalism program
Guided creation of core convergence curriculum
Oversaw expansion of international reporting programs
Hired prolific journalists to faculty
Make students and faculty excited about the future of
journalism
Continue to hire high-caliber faculty members
Help students adapt to the changes of journalism
caused by technology
Annenberg names new journalism director

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE More photos from Camp Darfur, a simulated refugee camp in McCarthy Quad.
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 163, NO. 55 | www.dailytrojan.com tuesday, april 15, 2008
Diversity in Art
Artist Hector Silva tells the stories of a twice
marginalized community through
more than 25 years of drawings. 7
Love of the game
Men’s tennis player Abdullah Magdas
is succeeding in his first season
with the No. 6 Trojans. 16
Faces of Darfur
As a part of Fight On for
Darfur week, the Undergraduate
Student Government created a
simulation of a Darfur refugee
camp. Inside each of the tents are
photos of some of the genocide
Quincy Dein | Daily Trojan
victims. Students can sign up to
camp out overnight in the tents
through Wednesday night.
Experts find SoCal
earthquake is likely
By NICOLE DAILO
Daily Trojan
Experts found there is a 99
percent chance that Califor-nia
will experience one or more
earthquakes in the next 30 years
identical in magnitude to the
1994 Northridge earthquake,
according to a report released
at a press conference Monday at
USC.
The probability of having an
earthquake of even greater mag-nitude,
specifically 7.5, during
the same time period is 46 per-cent,
the report found.
“The probabilities we’re get-ting
are not that much differ-ent
from ones we’ve gotten in
the past,” said Thomas Jordan,
director of Southern California
Earthquake Center and W.M.
Keck Foundation professor of
earth sciences. “But these proba-bilities
themselves are uncertain.
It’s a game of chance. It’s like flip-ping
a coin; maybe it’ll happen,
maybe it won’t.”
The study, called the Uniform
California Earthquake Rup-ture
Forecast, is the first from
the SCEC, the U.S. Geological
Survey and the California Geo-logical
Survey that assesses the
prospect of earthquakes across
the state rather than only in cer-tain
cities.
It presented the expected mag-nitude
of these earthquakes and
calculated when and where they
are expected to occur in the next
30 years.
The report divided the state
into two regions, designating
all areas north of Monterey as
Northern California and all cit-ies
south of San Luis Obispo
as Southern California. The
San Andreas, San Jacinto and
Elsinore Faults, the three most
active faults in the state, were the
primary subjects of analysis.
The findings from the study
could change evacuation
plans and building codes.
| see quake, page 6 |
By CALLIE SCHWEITZER
Daily Trojan
The Los Angeles Police Depart-ment
and the Department of Pub-lic
Safety are working on a memo-randum
of understanding that
when finalized could allow DPS to
enforce biking rules around cam-pus
more strictly — especially by
writing citations to bicyclists who
do not follow traffic laws.
“We’ve had an MOU with LAPD
for years,” DPS Capt. Dave Carlisle
said. “But it had gotten stale, so un-der
[DPS] Chief [Carey] Drayton
and [LAPD] Chief [William] Brat-ton,
we have looked to improve it.”
The new MOU will more clearly
define DPS’s powers and allow
them to do things that will save the
LAPD time, such as issuing traffic
citations to bicyclists that would
send them to traffic court, instead
of waiting for LAPD to make a visit
to campus to do so, Carlisle said.
LAPD has given hundreds of
bicycle-related citations to stu-dents
in the last three years, Dray-ton
said.
“But it’s not their first priority to
handle this,” he said. “LAPD is so
understaffed in this division that
there’s no time to write citations at
‘SC.”
Since the beginning of the
school year, DPS has been work-ing
on a campaign for new bicycle
law enforcement as a result of an
increase in bicycle-related accidents
on campus.
According to the California
Department of Motor Vehicles,
bicyclists must obey the California
Vehicle Code and are subject to the
same rules and regulations as any
other vehicle on the road. The bicy-cle
citations would function exactly
like vehicle citations: offenders
would be subject to fines, increased
insurance rates and points on their
license. They would also be sent to
traffic court.
Bicycles must ride in the same
direction as traffic, not against it,
and must come to a complete stop
at stop signs and traffic signals.
Upon receiving a citation, of-fenders
receive a court date and
time, and can choose to plead
guilty or not guilty, Carlisle said. If
they plead guilty, they can usually
avoid a visit to court by paying the
fine. If offenders wish to plead not
guilty, however, they must appear
in court.
Offenders who fail to pay the
fine or appear in traffic court after
being summoned are committing
another violation, a misdemeanor.
Their fines will increase and a traf-fic
warrant can be issued, DPS Of-ficer
Wyman Thomas said.
Under a new agreement,
students would go to traffic
court for bicycle citations.
DPS-LAPD team
to give citations
| see DPS, page 11 |
By KATE MATH ER
Daily Trojan
The national search for a new
director of the USC School of Journal-ism
is over. USC Annenberg School
for Communication Dean Ernest J.
Wilson III announced Monday that
a new director with an extensive back-ground
in journalism will hold the po-sition
beginning July 7.
Geneva Overholser, who currently
holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in
Public Affairs Reporting for the Mis-souri
School of Journalism, will replace
Michael Parks, who is stepping down
after holding the position since 2002.
“She has a tremendous professional
experience and is a respected leader
in both the field of journalism and as
a scholar looking toward the future
of journalism,” said Geoffrey Baum,
assistant dean for public affairs and
special events at Annenberg “As you
look across the nation at a field of can-didates
for director, there is no better
person.”
Overholser has an extensive back-ground
in journalism and has worked
for the Colorado Springs Sun, The
Washington Post and The New York
Times. She has also held positions on
the Pulitzer Prize Board and the Amer-ican
Society of Newspaper Editors.
Overholser is best known for her
work at the Des Moines Register, where
she served as editor from 1988 to 1995.
During that time, the paper won the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and
she was named Editor of the Year by
the National Press Foundation.
In recent years, however, Overholser
has used her journalistic background
to study the future of the profession.
In 2006, she published “On Behalf
Geneva Overholser will
replace Michael Parks when
his term ends in June.
| see Director, page 11 |
Michael Parks’ accomplishments at Annenberg:
Geneva Overholser’s goals for Annenberg:
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
=
Made sure Annenberg retained its accreditation
Brought more credibility to the journalism program
Guided creation of core convergence curriculum
Oversaw expansion of international reporting programs
Hired prolific journalists to faculty
Make students and faculty excited about the future of
journalism
Continue to hire high-caliber faculty members
Help students adapt to the changes of journalism
caused by technology
Annenberg names new journalism director